Skagit Valley Tulip Festival Mount Vernon WA

Springtime in Skagit Valley brings a very special event that draws over
a million people per year from all 50 American States, Canada, and over 50
countries. The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival tends to overshadow yet
another raving beauty that blooms approximately the same time
as the tulips--The Daffodil. Only 30 minutes south of Bellingham,
The annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is a stunning display of one of natures most
colorful flowers--The tulip and includes other events like wine tasting
and art sales. There are no words adequate to describe
the vast fields of color which leads many people to simply ooh and ahh as
they walk from row to row of ever more beautiful flowers.

It
has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but photos
also allow each visitor to bring home stunning images of the
festival to share with family and friends.

It is not
uncommon to max out every memory stick and run down their
camera battery taking shot after stunning shot of the tulips
in full bloom at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.

Your Opportunity To Tiptoe Through The Tulips -Tulip Time
In Skagit Valley is typically April 1st through April 30th is a not to be
missed event

The
showy perennial tulip comes in up to 109 species in a myriad of colors. The range of native
tulips extends from from Israel to Southern Europe however tulips are
cultivated around the world from Australia to North America. What's
your favorite Tulip?

After walking through countless blooming tulips and marveling at their
simple beauty you're going to want to take some home with you and fortunately
you can do just that. The tulip growers set up elaborate displays and large temporary concession tents where you can purchase a
bouquet of your favorite
colored flowers.

If you have a hard time choosing your
favorite flowers you can always buy two, three, or more
bouquets. The cut flowers are very affordable and even more so
the more you purchase.

Once you get the tulips home there are some specific things you can
do to keep your tulips happy, like cutting the stems underwater at an
angle with a sharp knife or scissors. This prevents the stems from
getting air bubbles in them which prevents the flower from siphoning
up water. Every two days cut one inch from the tulip stems to allow
flowers to continue to absorb water. Keep the water topped off and use
other methods to keep your tulips looking good like adding a crushed
aspirin to their water or add 3 drops of bleach per quart of water to
keep your cut flowers looking beautiful longer.

How
Tulips Are Propagated - How Do They Grow Tulips?

Tulips can be propagated through seeds, bulbs, or micropropagation.
Seed raised tulips show a greater genetic variation and this method is
most often used to create new hybrid varieties.

Each year hundreds of thousands of visitors snap countless
photos of the colorful displays of vivid colors. When the fields and
display gardens are in full bloom it is as if every flower in every
direction is worthy of a picture postcard. Just point and shoot and
you are sure to have a dazzling photo masterpiece. If you are
interested in entering the Tulip Festival Photo Contest the hardest
part may be selecting which photo to enter. You can be sure that
contest organizers are deluged with photos from professional as well
as armature photographers. Here are some of the rules for entering the
Skagit Tulip Festival Photo Contest

Your photo must have been taken no earlier than April 1, 2013 -
How they can verify this is an interesting question.

Only one entry per person/email address per week. If you send in
more, all entries from your email will be deleted for that week.

When you submit your photos you must grant publication rights to
the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival with no compensation. You can bask in
the glory of your photo credit and get a free Tulip Festival Poster.
It is a great honor for your photograph to be selected from the
countless entries the panel receives each year.

The countless colorful
flowers in fields stretching as far as the eye can see are
actually only a byproduct of what the growers really want to
grow--- More tulip bulbs. A very small
fraction
of these flowers ever end up in someone's vase or for sale in area nurseries,
but the bulbs are shipped around the world throughout the
year.

Tulipmania - The Great Tulip Crash

Tulipmania is a name given to the tulip bulb trading craze that
hit the Netherlands during the mid-1600's creating a financial
bubble though speculation that drove the price of some tulip bulbs
to incredible heights. When the market collapsed, people lost
fortunes and the entire Dutch economy suffered severely for many
years.

During the height of the tulip trading frenzy successful tulip
traders could earn in excess of $60,000 buying and selling tulip
bulbs with some bulbs selling for today's equivalent of about
$1,200.00, and it was said that 12 acres of land were once offered
for a certain type of tulip bulb. When the tulip market imploded
tulip bulb prices crashed to
only
1-one hundredth of their former price. It is easy to laugh at the
thought of a tulip bulb price spikes but it is not much different
than any market in which supply and demand drives prices up. In 2000
an ounce of gold was worth $312.00 but the same ounce of gold now
goes for almost $1,600.00. Recent news has compared the rise
and fall of Bitcoin to the great tulip crash.

Restaurants Near The Skagit Valley Tulip
Festival

There are a huge number of restaurants located in the communities
surrounding the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival Flower Fields. Whether
you are looking for fast food or something more exotic at a sit-down
restaurant. We have chosen a few that are worth your consideration.

If you will be staying in the Skagit Valley area during the Tulip
Festival you have a wide choice of accommodations to choose from in
the surrounding communities near the tulip fields of Skagit County.
The largest number of accommodations are found in Burlington and
Mount Vernon, as well as Anacortes and LaConnor.